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Proverbs 19:1-3
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It's Wise To Be Patient

19 It's better to be poor
and live right
    than to be a stupid liar.
2 Willingness and stupidity
    don't go well together.
If you are too eager,
    you will miss the road.
3 We are ruined
by our own stupidity,
    though we blame the Lord.

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Proverbs 19:1-3
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19 Better the poor whose walk is blameless
    than a fool whose lips are perverse.(A)

2 Desire without knowledge is not good—
    how much more will hasty feet miss the way!(B)

3 A person’s own folly(C) leads to their ruin,
    yet their heart rages against the Lord.(D)

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